I have grown so tired of Woman with a capital W, though I suppose it is rankest heresy to say so. I don't want to be Woman at all-...-I have begun to feel that I want to be something like this--WO--Aââ¬â.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their mom ...and pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »